Franz Koritschoner

Franz Koritschoner (23 February 1892-9 June 1941) was a co-founder of the Communist Party of Austria.

Biography
Franz Koritschoner was born in Vienna, Austria, Austria-Hungary on 23 February 1892 to a Jewish family, and he was one of the co-founders of the Communist Party of Austria in 1918. He was a member of the party's central committee until 1927, and he edited the central party organ, Die Rote Fahne. In 1941, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland by Nazi Germany, and he was executed on 9 June 1941.